Category: Technology
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Reuters’ Underwater Camera for Shooting Olympic Swimmers
Design derived from the cameras used during the BP oil spill back in 2010, via PetaPixel
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Life as a top notch surf photographer
Nice Momentum documentary on surf photographer Zak Noyle, via PetaPixel Part 1 Part 2
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iGills turns your iPhone into a diving system (and underwater camera)
iGills is a waterproof housing (plus free app) that turns your iPhone into a dive computer, underwater still and video camera, digital dive log, compass, flashlight with easy to reach press buttons and more, all for just $329.99. Via SlashGear.
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Why not to interview someone under water
Courtesy of Fox News, the transcript according to Mediaite: “BUBBLE BUBBLE GURGLE. BUBBLE BUBBLE the sea BUBBLE BUBBLE research GURGLE BUBBLE BUBBLE very important BUBBLE BUBBLE BUBBLE.â€
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Jacques Cousteau: ‘The most creative and imaginative person I’ve ever met’
Jacques Cousteau practically invented scuba diving when he developed the regulator valve that made possible breathing air from tanks underwater. “I remember most that he was enchanted with ideas … He was almost like a little child, but he was the most creative and imaginative person I’ve ever met,” says Susan Schiefelbein, a close collaborator…
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Televising the London 2012 Olympics
Anyone excited yet ? Televisacion de los Juegos OlÃmpicos de Londres 2012 from Swim Crunch on Vimeo.
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MIT alum captures world record-setting highest-resolution underwater image
Logged at 2.6 gigapixels, this YouTube video shows a new robotic, 3D camera system in action, developed by MIT alum Corey Jaskolski, responsible for taking “the world record-setting, highest-resolution underwater image.†Read BostInno
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JVC ADIXXION action camera is waterproof and streams directly to Ustream
Not so shabby, JVC’s new pocket-sized GC-XA1 ADIXXION camcorder is waterproof down to five meters, shockproof to withstand a fall from two meters (onto pool tiles?), dustproof and freeze-proof (wee, now we can film the freezing of ice cubes), records in full HD 1920×1080/30p and can stream live high definition video in real time to…
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Conan reviews “Michael Phelps: Push The Limit”
Team Coco’s resident gamer Bley introduces the maestro to Michael Phelps’ new competitive swimming video game “Push The Limit.” Conan then reviews the game on a scale of 1 to 45 based on his extensive ignorance of video games in general. See Team Coco